To prepare yourself to handle negative emotions, you should have a set of mental tricks available to you to help combat the situations that cause negative emotions. These tricks force you to address the situation immediately so that negative emotions do not linger or grow into something unmanageable.

How do you get your calendar back under control?

In this blog, I am going to stay away from typical advice like calendar blocking strategies or delegating meeting to others, instead I will take you through my thought process on how to decide what meetings to attend.

The idea that doing more work brings more value to your business is false. Busy work is replaceable work. What brings more value to your business is being able to come up with unique solutions to problems that no one else can solve.

How to become more disciplined

Here is a truth, successful people are not always successful.

An ode to being clear on who we are and what we want in life.

We are all short on time these days. Where is your time being wasted?

Why do we break promises to ourselves so often?  What do we need to do to stand a better chance of sticking to a commitment we make to ourselves?

It’s a fundamental decision we must make to dedicate our whole being to the thing that we are most fascinated with.

The mobile phone insulates us from our own boredom. If there is a moment to spare, we check our phones.  We are afraid to miss something. Our phones give us instant gratification, relieving us from... ourselves. But each time we check our phones, we disengage from our own lives. We miss out on the most important thing that we have – the present moment.

From one fad to the next, we are chasing something, but we don't know what. All the while, the one fad that we should be chasing is right under our noses.

We can never truly understand the suffering that another person goes through or has been through in their life.

Every day, you face many decisions. In each decision, you have a choice to do what is right, or to do what is wrong.

Left to your own accord, you will often make the wrong decision.

I play the leading role in a movie that has no name.  I have no fans, no following, no groupies. I am not famous. I will never win an Oscar.  I will play the same role in the same movie for the rest of my life.

You and I are both fiction writers.

I am a pawn on a chessboard.  The rules are simple, one or two steps forward at a time.  If I was the only piece in the game, I would always win.  But instead, I am at the mercy of the powerful chess pieces who try to manipulate and control me.